Thomas Edsall

[Thomas Edsall @edsall_thomas]

The problem with the survey is that red and blue are indelibly Republican and Democratic. Trump voters will disproportionately choose the red button out of partisan loyalty making them look worse than they are.

[David Shor @davidshor]

We asked this to a large sample of nationally representative Americans - blue wins by a 3:1 margin!

[Sam Pratt @sampratt99]

🚨 New paper in Personality and Individual Differences!

We introduce the Words Can Harm Scale (WCHS): a 10-item measure of the belief that speech can cause lasting psychological harm.

Who believes that words can harm, and what does this belief predict?🧵 ⬇️

[David Hume Kennerly @kennerly]

This is an extraordinary piece of writing. I started reading it and couldn’t stop, and neither should you. @Liz_Cheney @KerryKennedyRFK @mikebarnicle @kathleenparker @AdamKinzinger @gtconway3d @NormOrnstein @JohnJHarwood @BeschlossDC @SykesCharlie @ImprovAmbassadr @ccwhip

[Thomas Edsall @edsall_thomas]

Prosecutors fail to secure indictment against 6 Dem lawmakers https://t.co/CN03WDwtYK via @politico

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

All part of wrecking America...

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

WSJ with a devastating, intensely-sourced article demonstrating how Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff tried to sellout Ukraine, the U.S., and Europe for money. It's so bad one of our European allies shared evidence of the planned business deals. A must-read.

https://t.co/VRYfsRFqdq

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

A day after promising military strikes on Venezuela to “deter drug traffickers,” Trump announced he’s pardoning the narco-dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez—who’s serving 45 years in prison for working alongside El Chapo to smuggle 400+ tons of cocaine into the US.

The announcement was made in a statement that constitutes blatant interference in Honduran elections, which threatens to withhold resources to the country if his preferred (narco-friendly) candidate doesn’t win Sunday.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

In fact, the federal judiciary has zero role in approving asylum applications at all; USCIS adjudicators are federal bureaucrats and immigration judges are technically senior attorneys for the Department of Justice.

The only role Article III courts play is hearing appeals.

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): “Putin has spent the entire year trying to play President Trump for a fool.

If Administration officials are more concerned with appeasing Putin than securing real peace, then the President ought to find new advisors.

Rewarding Russian butchery would be disastrous to America’s interests. And a capitulation like Biden’s abandonment of Afghanistan would be catastrophic to a legacy of peace through strength.”

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

DONALD TRUMP CONTINUES HIS WAR ON PEOPLE OF COLOR.

THIS IS WHAT ALL THIS IS ABOUT IMO.

[Jake M. Grumbach @JakeMGrumbach]

For some reason media and social media haven’t really covered record setting grocery prices last week

via @gelliottmorris

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

🚨🚨🚨This is exactly how I feel. 🚨🚨🚨

CHARLES PIERCE WRITES:
“In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and say, "And we shall overcome."
I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over.
I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City.
I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job.
They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators.
Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.
We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents.

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

The premiere of “Sunday Night with Chuck Todd” — featuring @Bannons_WarRoom 's first deep dive TV interview since Elon Musk's exit from MAGA world is now streaming exclusively on Noosphere. Watch the full episode, including a postgame with @chriscillizza and Noosphere founder @JaneFerguson5 exclusively on the Noosphere app here https://t.co/3KTdKABqDO

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

Hi everyone — I was laid off from my job on Friday

If you know of any open opportunities in polling or market research (full-time or contracts/consulting), please let me know. I have 12 years of experience in the industry

If you don’t, please consider reposting/sharing

Thanks!

[Thomas Edsall @edsall_thomas]

Trump’s wanton attacks on institutions and individuals have a specific purpose.

Shared via the Google app https://t.co/U6lhloluaY

[Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) @BrendanNyhan]

Trump's executive order directing DOJ to investigate ActBlue makes clear we no longer a fully democratic country - my comments to the Associated Press
https://t.co/5VfjW402IW

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

HOLY SHIT! Did you see the end of @60Minutes tonight?

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

Beyond disgraceful — and on the holiest day of the Christian calendar, instrumentalizing the Resurrection to rant about his enemies. No class.

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

And I found it, the best tweet of the year.

[Thomas Edsall @edsall_thomas]

Congratulations. Well-deserved

[Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann]

I have been named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, alongside a great group of scholars. This @carnegiecorp fellowship will support my research on enabling policymaking in an age of party polarization & parity. #CarnegieFellows list:
https://t.co/777WnNgLga